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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02
USE OF WINTER EVENINGS.

Here are several thoughts that had oc
Cured to us and which we were about To
write out when we happily find them al
ready expressed in the sun.
As the summer season draws to
an end and the evenings grow long
er an important question for all
young people is what programme
they shall adopt for the leisure hours
of autumn and winter. Those who
have regular hours of work have al
so several hours in the long winter
evenings that may be devoted to
study, selfimprovement, recreation
or amusement, or may be altogether
wasted in idleness. If tEey have no
definite purpose in life, no aim be-
fore them, these leisure hours will
very likely be wasted and bring them
no return Of increased knowledge or
skill, and very little amusement of q
healthtul kind. But if 4 little
thought is given to the future a
scheme may be mapped out that will
be very useful to them now and in
after years, and promote their pres
ent as well as their future happiness.
1t will not do to leave out of this
scheme Il plan for rational amuse-
ment and recreation. The young
need social education as much as
anything else, and should not shut
themselves out nor be debarred from
wholesome company in which to cul
tivate the social graces. But when
they have made due allowance of
time from their leisure hours for
amusement and for visits to friends,
there still remains time for study
and self improvement. Reading,
wisely directed, affords both enter
tainment and instruction. 1t may
be directed in the channel of ones
daily work or to some plan for iu-
ture occupation, and so be made to
bear directly on ones bread winning
power, fitting the mechanic to be-
come foreman or employer of Ia
Dor; the clerk to become a book
keer and man of affairs. or either to
enter one of the professions. Liter
airy societies also afford a pleasant
and useful agency for self improve
ment, and may readily be organized
in any circle of bright young men
and women. In the larger cities
are generally night schools that pro-
vide instruction in drawing or in
some kind of mechanical handiwork.
These are most useful to aspiring
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02
CORA PEARL"
A Woman Whose Life Has Been Mar.
vel---Her Shameless Career.

Paris papers announced the
publication of the memoirs Of the
chief of the demi-monde, Cora Pearl.
Cora. or Emma Crutch, rs she was
in early life called, or Crouch, as
she styles herself in her memoirs,
has been aptly entitled "a part of
the moral history of the Second En-
pire." She now claims to be the
daughter of f. Nichols Crouch, au-
thor of kathleen Mavourecn' and
other charming ballads. Mr.. Crouch
is now resident at Baltimore, and
dispatches from that point report
that he does not know whether Cora
Pearl is his daughter or not. 1t is
safe to say Cora knows still less
about it. But there is some reason
for Mr.. Crouch's ignorance in this
case, as he had nine children by his
first wife, an English actress. and of
these one, presumably Emma or Co
ra, left her home when young girl,
and has not been seen by her father,
who has led Bohemian existence
in the United States for the past 20
years.
But Crouch or Crutch, it was as
Cora Pearl that she turned the
heads of half the aristocrats of the
Second Empire. Accounts of her
early life have differed. One YER
sion represented her as the daughter
of an impecunious Philadelphia ac-
tor, and native OF that city. By
another account, she was the dau9h
ter Of = respectable English music
dealer, whose shop was in Regent
street, London. Both of these sto-
ries were merely perversions of the
real facts, for Crouch was for years
a prominent figure in the musical
circles of London, and later in his
career was stranded in the City OF
Brorherly Love. BE her origin what
it may, Cora is now about Al years
of age-aad very old for her years,
and is in broken health. She lives
in small but comfortable house in
Paris. For years she commanded
an income of 100000, but her capt
tai has been dissipated, and its sour.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02

Keeping a close watch over the
plowpoint, and having it sharp, or
replacing, it frequently with a new
one, will often save ten times the
cost of the plow in labor.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02

order, but they were sovereign.
Jules Claretie, the present director
Of the Theatre Francais, some years
ago described her as "a pale woman
with little cats nose, eyes hardly
pierced in her face, large mouth,
and hair of an odd, reddish hue.
Her cold, hard look was like that of
Sheffield steel" But this hardly
Tailed with the description of her
by Paris correspondent in 1878, at
the time of the sale of her effects.
"She is not" says the correspondent,
sand never has been handsome; on
the contrary, she is and has always
been very plain. Her features are
large, not we'll formed, and inclined
to coarseness. Her figure is neither
bad nor very good. She is notice
able for grace. She is not intellec-
tual, albeit she has acquired by dint
of close observation and of ratcn-
tive memory, Quantity of sharp
sayings which pass for wit. She is
more than forty and looks olderyet.
She declares that she has neither
heart nor conscience, and in this she
probably tells the truth" Yet this
woman set the fashions of two hem
ispheres, inventing Rabagas hat,
which the electrified the world OF
milliners, by simply dancing on the
hat of her cavalier, and then, after
decking it with preposterous bit
of feather, wearing it on the drive
home for the races. The caprice or
folly of an adventures, VINO would
in vain seek admittance to reputa-
BILE household, sets the fashion for
one half the civilized world.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02
ROBERT TOOMBS.
Written for the Courier-Journal

Written FOR the Courier-Journal.
The first evidence of the coming
power of this remarkable man was
exhibited at Wilmington, a small vii
lage in Abbeville district as the
present counties were then called) J,
South Carolina. Gen. George Nc
Duliie, the only representative of De
mostheneS in this country since Pat
rick Henry, lived near there. Nc
Duflie was harnessed lightning. He
forged the chain of logic at a white
heat. He was the most nervous, i'm
passioned and thrilling tribune Of
the people of that day, He demon
strated the political problems as
Euclid did geometry, while foaming
at the mouth and screaming like n
painted Greek Indian. He had mar
ried the only daughter of Dick Sin
gleton, the celebrated millionaire
turfman and rice-planter, and he
owned four hundred slaves and made
eight hundred bales of cotton year.
He had been a member of Congress,
Governor of South Carolina, and was
afterwards United States Senator.
The people. before making up their
minds on any political question,
would say "Mr. McDufiie is going to
speak at Morrow'S field two weeks
from now, and Twill wait till | hear
him." and there they would come
forty and fifty miles, and camp out
the night betoreto hear him, and his
speech would deciie the politics Of
the whole country once year On
this Wilmington occasion it was said
that "the everlasting -mouthed Bob
TOombs was coming over to meet
him." Four thousand people were
there when that rash young Georg-
ian crossed the Savannah to meet the
lion in his den, to beard the Doug
las in bis halls. Toombs rode
horse, and it was remarked that his
shirt bosom was stained with tobac-
CO Juice. Yet he was one of the
handsOmest men that ever had the
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02

one-twentieth part of its gross
weight. An animal of this nature
must necessarily carry great deal
of fat, and the importance Of
making it we'll muscled to keep it
from complete degeneracy is self
evident to any Thoughtful person;
hence, inasmuch as the natural ten
dency of the hog is to fat, feeders
should make it point to counteract
the evil by using the most nutritious
feed, to the exclusion of fat-forming
food.
A good way" says writer in
the Country Gentleman, "to raise or
lower the temperature in churn is
to have long tin cylinder, say eigh-
teen inches long by four inches in
diameter; filling this with either hot
or cold water, and putting in the
churn and moving around for lit
tie while will soon make the needed
change.
An eminent writer says that cream
is an innocent, palatable, nutritious
luxury for everybody at all times.
AS an antidote for tendency to
consumption it acts like charm,
and serves all the purposes intended
to be served by cod-liver oil with
much greater certainty and effect.
Where sweet cream can be had cod
liver oil is never needed.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02
HENRY CLAY.

Carl Schurz has published biog-
raphy Of Mr.. Clay, from which we
give two extracts:
Few public characters in Ameri-
can history have been the subjects
of more heated controversy than
Henry Clay. There was no measure
Of detraction and obloquy to which,
during his lifetime, his opponents
would not resort, and there seemed
to be no limit to the admiration and
attachment of his friends. While
his enemies denounced him as pre-
tender and selfish intriguer in poll
ties and an abandoned proaigate in
private life, his supporters unhesi-
tatingly placed him first among the
sages Of the period, and, by way of
defense. sometimes even amongst its
saints. The anlmosities against him
have, naturally, long ago disappear
ed. but even now, more than thirty
years after his death, we may hear
old men who knew Gim in the days
of his strength speak of him with
an enthusiasm and affection so warm
and fresh as to convince US that the
recollection OF having followed his
leadership is among the dearest
treasures Of their memory. The re-
markable fascination he exercised
seems to have reached even beyond
his living existence.
But while he was a strong leader
he was not safe guide. His i'm
pulses were vehement, and his mind
not well fitted for the patient analy
sis of complicated problems and of
difficult political situations. His
Imagination frequently ran away
with his understanding. On the
other hand, he never sought to or
ganize or strengthen his following by
the arts of the patronage mOnger.
In no sense, either, was he a money
maker in politics. His integrity as
q public man remained without
blemisn throughout his long career.
Whatever Clay's weaknesses of
character and errors in statesman
ship may have been, almost every
thing he said or did was illumined
by a grand conception of the destin
les of his country, a glowing nation
al spirit, q lofty patriotism Wheth'
er he thundered against British tyr
amy on the seas, or urged the rec
ognition of the South American sis
ter Republics. or attacked the high
handed conduct Of the military chief
tain in the Florida war, or advocated
protection and internal improve
mentS, or assailed the one-man pow
er and spoils politics in the person
of Andrew Jackson, or cntreated for
compromise and Cancellation regard
inc the tariff or slavery; whether
what he advocated was wise or un-
wise. right or wrong, there was al
ways ringing through his words
fervid plea for his country, a Jealous
appeal in behalf OF the honor and fu
ture greatness and glory Of the Re
public, or IN anxious warning lest
the Union, and with it the greatness
and glory Of the American people, be
put in jeopardy. 1t was just judg-
ment which hepronounced upon him
self when he wrote: "If any one de-
sires to know the leading and para
mount object Of my pnblic life, the
preservation Of this Union will fur
nish him the key
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02

seal of genius on his brow. His
head was round as the celestial
globe. His abundant, straight, black
hair hung in profusion over his am
pie, marble forehead. He had as
many teeth as a shark, and they
were whittier than ivory. His eyes
were black as death and bigger than
an ox's. His step was as graceful
as the wildcats, and yet he weighed
two hundred pounds. His presence
captlvated even the idolators of
Georg McDuflie. He bounded into
the arena like black-maned Numid-
ian lion from the unknown deserts
of Middle Georgia, to reply to the
Olympian Jupiter of the upcountry
of the proud Palmetto State. 1t was
the most memorable overthrow that
McDuffie ever sustained. This was
in the Harrison-V Van Buren election
of 1910. His argument, his invec-
tive, his overbearing torrent of irrev-
erent denunciation. is tradition In
that country even now. McDuflie
said: IL have heard John Randolph,
of Roanoke, and met Tristan Bur
CESS, of Rhode Island, but this wild
Georgian is the Mirabeau of this
age" After that South Carolina adj
mitted that Georgia was something
more than the refuge Of South Car
olina fugitives from justice. This
was the beginning of TOombs' i'm
mortal Southern fame.
Since the recent death ofeX Senator
r. NJ. L. Hunter, of Virginia, Sena-
tor Reagan, of Texas, and eX-Gov.
L. ii. Watts. CT Alabama, are the on
ly surviving members of Mr.. Davis
Cabinet. Reagan was Postmaster
General and Watts Attorney Gener-
al. At Montgomery, Ala, there was
a secret session of the Cabinet to de-
eide whether we should lombard
Fort Sumter. Toombs was then Sec.
retary of State, and regarded as the
most rash, headstrong and violent
man in the Confederacy. While in
the presence of Mr.. Davis the bal
ancc of the Cabinet gave their opin
ions in favor Of bombardment, Mr..
Toombs was, US was his custom,
pacing the floor. When it came his
turn to express his opinion, to the
amazement of all he vehemently OPP
posed the attack, and made one of
the most remarkable speeches of all
his life in opposition to it. He said
it would be the doom of the. Confed-
eracy. He said: LET Charleston
90. Give up Sumter. Let it be pro-
visioued, but never explode the vol
cano that is under our feet" He
said it was suicide and madness, and
would lose us every friend in all the
North, and exhibited all his magnif-
icent powers in opposition to the at
tack. He said; "AIr. President, you
will wantonly strike a hornets nest
that fills the North from ocean to
ocean, and legions, now quiet, will
swarm out 10 sting us to death. 1t
is unnecessary; it puts us in the
wrong; it is fatal" And 50 it was.
Toombs was the wsest and the great
est of all the statesmen Of the South
ern Confederacy.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02
oung people, and well repay all the

young people, and well repay all the
time that one may devote to them.
Drawing is the universal language
and a moderate degree of skill in its
use is of great advantage to workers
in all trades and occupations. Very
few of the pupils who study drawing
become artists or directly apply their
skill in the industrial arts, but they
acquire a means of expressing their
thoughts that is time saving and
help to promote them in their bust
ness. The mechanic who can make
even rough sketch of machine
that is built, or whose familiarity
with drawing enables him to com
prehend alta glance another draughts-
mans purpose in plan, is natural
ly selected in preference to~one not
50 skilled to act as foreman or to do
work requiring this Special knowl-
edge. 1t is worth while, therefore,
to learn to draw not for the purpose
of making pictures, but for the skill
developed, the training it affords for
both eye and hand. In similar COM
munities where night schools are not
provided it IS an easy matter to or
ganize societies for self improvement
where drawing may be practiced
with only such instruction as may
be drawn from books. The impor-
tant thing, however, is to have set
tied plan for the winters occupations
in leisure hours, that the end of the
season may find one improved in
mind and body. Ifthe matter is left
to chance the long evenings will be
very apt to be spent in idleness,
which is not always merely negative
in its effects, but is sometimes
positive evil. Two nights of the
week at least should be assigned to
some definite work of self-improve-
ment-practicc in drawing, serious
reading with a purpose in view or
literary exercises ina debating soci-
ETY.. If two or three friends can be
united in the same project, each will
be stimulated and helped by the
companionship. There are so many
examples in this country of selfmade
men who have achieved distinction
mainly through the good use they
made of their leisure hours when
young, that every ambitious boy and
girl should feel encouraged to follow
their example. They need not make
such sacrifices now rs their fathers
before them, for most Of them have
already acquired what is known rs
common-school education, and IL
braries and night schools are open
to all who choose to make use of
such opportunities for advancement.
All that is needed is the purpose to
seek self-improvement. Now is the
time to think seriously upon this
question. and to resolve that, in spite
of temptations to lead an idle life of
amusement during the winter season,
few hours at least Of each week
shall he devoted to study Of some
kind in q systematic way. Too
much should not be undertaken, for
discipline is needed as well as study,
and whatever is resolved upon should
be carried out a shifting purpose
with every wind that blows not only
detracts from the benefit that might
have been obtained from n settled
course, but develops habits that are
themselves injurious.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02
GALLopING INTO NoToRIETY.

She took up her abode in Paris in
the days when the Second Empire
Was in the full flood of its artificial
prosperity. She had not handsome
face, but she had a fine figure, and
she rode superbly. Literally, she
galloped into notoriety in Paris, and
under the rule of the third Napoleon
notoriety was fame. One Of her
great conquests was Jerome Napo-
leon, whom she captured while out
with the princes stag hounds at
Meudon-riding to hounds and rid
ing to hearts were pretty much the
same thing with this cheerful young
person. Another of her great friends
in those halcyon and vociferous
days was the Due de Morny-he
who figures in Daudet's ''Nabob" as
the Due de Mora-and it is said
that Jecker, the notorious Swiss
banker, succeeded through her in
winning over De Morny to his side,
and thus secured the continuation Of
the French war against Mexico.
Counts and dukes without number
were also found in her train, and
her adventures were quite as eXcit-
ing as any pictured by Daudet and
Feuillet. She was on terms of too
great intimacy with the late Crown
Prince of Holland-generally known
as Prince Citron, nickname deriv
ed from his title of Prince of Or
ange-the Due de Gramont, the Due
de Caderousse, and other titled lib
ertines whose pseudonyms are thin
ly disguised in letters to her which
will be made public in her memoirs.
These letters are described as GU
rious melange of passion and poll
tics, and one European celebrity,
still living, paid her $4,000 to sup
press letter from him.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-02

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ces are no longer at her command.
According to her memoirs, Cora left
her family and home at the age of
IL and began the career which has
been the marvel Of Paris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-01
Betting THEIR GUEST IO DEIlH
KILLED IN A BoWERY LODGING HOUSE.
TWO CLERKS rFfECrUALLY QUIET NOISY MAN
CLUB.

TWO CLERKS TFfICrtALLG QllEl N'i't ''N'
WITH A CLUB.
4 brutal murder was committed yesterday morning
I'm the pho.nix Lodging House, No 53 Bowery. The
Mace has been known to the police as home Tor
drunken and criminals, aud II was therc Una" W.
tcctvcs found and arrested Grcoh"alH INC NUT
dcrcr Of Lyman :. Weeks. Cots Tor louS'rs
ar, placed as close together in tho biz dor
ulto,y AS tic sanitary police viii allow
There are lockers for tho clothing to prevent stealing
At night About / a. III. yesterday the police found
lodecr dying In the house and thcre was plenty oi
c,dcnce that he had been beaten by TWO CLERKS VIII
lam Downcy and John Goctchou.
pairolman IL Hand heard there had been fight ia
The house and went up to the third hoor' "liet' h'
found AN excited crowd OF dodgers and cmpoyos "h
m, floor Law AN Iri,hman OF middle age, almost naked
and bleeding from cuts the head brief eAainl-
nation cuuNl luCcd the officer that the man as uSiha
Holland Thought It would be unsafe to make arrests
alone lu such a crowd, and he icsored to r"'e ="
allly suspicion. " ! guess h. isnt much h"iI Lc'
Inn alone aud hen come around all right 10 Hlte
whllc- h, said IN a careless way. lncn kc "tN
down 10 t,c street and called several more F"lcemrh
The TWO CLERKS and four dodgers who claimed 10 nave
witnessed the assault, were put under arrest and sent
to the LlIudsc street Police station. An ambnlanr"
u,s sent ioi, bat llc wounded man dcd before 1t
arrived
Tie police learned that The murdered man vas Win
lam iicrn,>~y, a I"up>hotrman, who had been en-
ll.tcd A. au East ENcr dock lie had no home aud
had been ~iccpur at ,Ac lodging house iol ncdly u
fortnight. An examination Of hl, body showed ihai
De Lal l-.u cuhhrd and Achcd To death IL sLai
wa. lu..cu u tuo place, ard several rib, were ilac
turcd ou our sdc. The dodgers under arrest were
James oIucu. Joseph 1.!slmau Morris e'ono and
rAlp Lo.,crt The, told tAe STORY OF the murder L"
timaiu Niiarc aud ,orourr Nusrut as follows;
n ,t. .,.t, .itfL lr,l, on tf, third noor Goctch,us
one of tire rrrh~. helped hm 10 undrr,S ana ioch
vn his clothes icnur,sy was drunk and NOISY. Iu.
.l,f. o. Al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-01
rtTUIE WTYGHE RESIGNS.

.u~t voXru's TEACHING ~ IHT rirTsHt Il" - HLl'
SCHOOL StrIicIrNr FOR HIM
Pi1rSErEG oct ~ t>p'"iGi, Father MrIISh' '".u"y
ro.,,ucd tie principalslip of tho 1hr>''hl" ""f'
pulIc School He AID "a reporter That he d" "o' ~
ps,t 10 return 10 No -chonl building. wnch wa" 80"
less building IN which II" Christian COMA ''"'' " wv" "
or live lie added that he had resigned "' h'" ""u
good and the good ol hi people ana was MOI P""te
Nv ht surc,iors If, would reopen the pMoch'a school
Oh Wednesday aud did not want my oi hs chi"''" III
there" pointing 10 tho uuhlic school mlI'l"t' r"''
McTignc continued Every time eolni" th"' '''''"
school II chill- my heart to TIE core ., 5000. o.i,.l
What ar. your reasons fer gring hc Wls a."
10 wI,ch the priest replied THAT snonrO OI the r""'
business.
Father McTIglu served one month. save one u"N ' M
received $40 Hecaus- ot the transfer "i lhe , l.'
puils to tie public school the Attendance had
nom forysevcn 10 2Tl ana IT. M. last "c'h i'P"' W. w
the educati,nal authorities Fathrr Nciis ,~d '''' w
be, ted an adiiion Of 100 pupils this week \ p"
inrnt hnlc said thnt he believed that the IrSE"
was prompted by the Church authorities